Jerry Thomas
Family Medicine · Franklinton, LANPI 1164400404
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 133 payments — averaging $17.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$413
- AstraZeneca$354
- GSK$347
- Novo Nordisk$264
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$177
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$172
- plus $657 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,385100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 26 | $413 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $354 |
| GSK | 19 | $347 |
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $264 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $177 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 11 | $172 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $89 |
| Novartis | 1 | $88 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $81 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $59 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $55 |
| Merck | 4 | $48 |
| Biogen | 3 | $43 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $40 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $17 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Abbott | 1 | $11 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- FARXIGA$217
How this compares
$2,385 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other family medicine in Franklinton
- Clinton GuilloryMonroe$18.5M
- Jason MorrisLake Charles$18M
- Michael SeepLake Charles$9.1M
- William NaboursLake Charles$3M
- Ramon VargasKenner$2.1M
- Stephen JonesNew Orleans$513K
- Joshua WhatleyLake Charles$366K
- Richard JeansonneMandeville$362K
- Kristen ThomasNew Orleans$361K
- Clint WilsonBossier City$208K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.